My dreams have been answered: Now you can do emoji replies in email.

I love emojis.

Yup. That’s me, in 2026. Out loud and proud.

The caveat — of course, there’s a caveat — is that my emoji love is very specific: I love using emojis to modify messages in a text chat.

This feels dumb to explain, because you have phones, so you’ve almost certainly seen this, even if you’re not using it yourself.

But to be clear: You use these when your friend tells you the dinner reservation is for 7, and you reply by appending a “thumbs up” to their note. Or someone posts something dumb in the groupchat, and you add a “ha ha” to the screenshot.